Canreef Aquatics Bulletin Board - Palythoas experience (almost in hospital)

Pets often can feel when their owners are not feeling well..either physically or if they are not happy. At least my dog does and when I am not feeling right, hangry or not in my best mood my dog usualy look miserable and sleep most of the day on her pillow.

I had dogs all of my live and it was like that for all of them, no exception.

Lets see..how many people died from simple food poisoning? How many people actualy even wash their hands before handling food or eating?

"To better quantify the impact of foodborne diseases on health in the United States, we compiled and analyzed information from multiple surveillance systems and other sources. We estimate that foodborne diseases cause approximately 76 million illnesses, 325,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths in the United States each year. Known pathogens account for an estimated 14 million illnesses, 60,000 hospitalizations, and 1,800 deaths. Three pathogens, Salmonella, Listeria, and Toxoplasma, are responsible for 1,500 deaths each year, more than 75% of those caused by known pathogens, while unknown agents account for the remaining 62 million illnesses, 265,000 hospitalizations, and 3,200 deaths. Overall, foodborne diseases appear to cause more illnesses but fewer deaths than previously estimated."

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol5no5/mead.htm

Are we going to stop eating? Because the risk of dying from eating something bad is quite a bit more than the risk of even being sick by handling zoanthids and paly.

I never seen a real credible account if someone's death caused by zoanthids or palythoas in the aquarium trade.

How many people handle zoanthids and palythoas bare hand without ever having a single issue?

I don't understand the panic about this, since we live with much more dangerous stuff and much more potent stuff everyday and we don't even care. YOu say that palytoxin is the most potent stuff...but a single tiny winy virus is a lot more potent because that's all it takes to kill you. NOw the palytoxin will not kill you if you simply touch it. People should use common sense.

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hypochondria, but does not explain why my dogs and wife (which knows nothing about palytoxin) were sick as well. Dogs were weasing and slept for most of the day, they both were warmer than usual.

There is no such thing as hypochondriac dogs, but there is such thing in humans...very very often.

Googled hypochondiac dogs, resulted in nothing.

I used the resperator during the fragging of the palys, I then removed it once in another part of the house (upstairs).